'Incredibly bright' lunar halo photographed in Inuvik, N.W.T.
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Moira Storr had a feeling.
It was Monday and the Inuvik resident had spotted a sundog, a bright spot in the sky on one or both sides of the sun, caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere, during the day.
"And I thought, I bet you there's going to be something happening with the moon tonight," she said.
Sure enough, that night she saw something she had never seen before, a lunar halo.
She first spotted it while she was on her way to deliver some food to her grandchildren. On her way back home, she said the lunar halo got brighter.
Even though it was about -40 C that night, she looked for the best place to take a picture of it, and found it at the corner of Inuit Road and Firth Street.
"My breath was taken away, seeing that it was just so beautiful," she said.
Alan Clark, a retired professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary who also calls himself a halo enthusiast, saw the photo.
"If it were around the sun, I would not be particularly excited by it," he said.
"But the impressive thing about this is that it was in fact the moon, and yet the halo display is incredibly bright."
He said there's a famous picture taken in 1972 in Saskatoon of a sundog that lasted all day.
The picture is famous, said Clark, because the halo is much brighter than most other ones.
"This display that Maria photographed for the moon is the equivalent of that. It is a fairly common display, but it's very bright for a moon display," he said.
He added he thinks the halo probably lasted "for quite some time through the night."
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